Promoting Open Science in Bioinformatics

Background

This project seeks to sensitize and promote open and reproducible Bioinformatics research within Nairobi. The target groups are the graduate students and highly motivated undergraduate students in local universities within Nairobi region. Through the project, we aim to promote open, reproducible and collaborative Bioinformatics research and produce researchers equipped with tools -- Git & GitHub, reproducible research notebooks (Rmarkdown and Jupyter) -- for open and collaborative research. The participants will be ready to tackle local Bioinformatics challenges. In addition, this project is a step towards building a community of Open Scientists who will promote open and collaborative research.

Participate

You can participate in a number of ways, including:

You are familiar with open science tools and would like to offer to train or contribute to training materials
You are a Bioinformatics student, or enthusiasts, and would like to participate in our workshops and/or hackathons
You are an open Science advocate within Nairobi and would love to give a lecture in one of our events
You Love open science and would like to fund our events

Events

We are organizing seminars in May, workshops in August and hackathons in September. Keep an eye this page for our events posting.

Open Science Seminars

See this page for more information.

Open Science Workshops

Our Open Science Workshop will be held on 9th and 10th August 2017 at the KENET training room, Jomo Kenyatta Memorial Library, the University of Nairobi from 9 am to 5 pm. Applications to participate in the workshop can be made through this Google Form (Applications Closed).

Workshop Schedule

The schedule for this workshop can be accessed here.

Reach out

For questions, suggestions or to participate, reach me via:

Twitter: @calkibet
Email: kipkuruis [at] hotmail.com

License

All content of this repo is released under the CC-BY 4.0 license

Attribution

The contribution of Mozilla Science Lab and the commit contributors to this template is hereby acknowledged. Sourced from https://github.com/joeyklee/friendly-github-intro. We have edited and stripped the content for our Open Science Workshop.

Acknowledgement

We hereby acknowledge the funding for this project from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through Mozilla Science Lab Mini-Grants.

The workshop venue and computing resource support from Kenya Education Network (KENET) is also acknowledged.

The Team

This project has been a collaboration.

sebymusundi/OpenScienceKE